Re: 10/19 Show Discussion

Yeah, I'm worried about that too. I think the audience will be tween girls and seniors. Everyone else is either out at the HS football game or out to dinner at that hour. As for the voting... that bodes well for the tween band.

Re: 10/19 Show Discussion

The show wasn't that bad.

Horrible timeslot though.

You'd think this would be positioned as "American Band" without all the other words in the title so it could be posed as a direct heir of the Idol franchise. The weak tie-in to the Idol franchise (basically none other than pubic knowledge of the producers, and the fact that the original tape submission was solicited during the last version of Idol) means they've given up a lot of the publicity advantage that could have given them. The formula appears to be identical otherwise, other than the fact that everything in the earliest stages was done via submission videos instead of public auditions.

Alas, even if Uncle Nigel and friends are in charge of this at the top, there have to be some idiots below them actually running it. I mean what kind of idiots have their tryouts outdoors, during the day, in the Nevada desert? It was bad enough for the bands, but you've got to think those judges were lingering near the point of strokes by the middle of the first day. Even if they let them go into air conditioned trailers while each new band set up.

Re: 10/19 Show Discussion

Whoever does the scheduling for Fox obviously does not live in the USA. To premier a family oriented show on a Friday night at the height of HS football season just doesn't make any sense. I'm guessing lots of folks TiVoed it, but that won't help one iota when the voting starts.

It would do better if it was packaged with Idol Rewind, but in our town, Rewind is being shown by CW, not Fox.